Compiling nofib-analyse

[Edward Z. Yang]

I went ahead and pushed it.

Edward

Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones's message of 2015-01-05 09:37:38 -0800:
> Let's do it!  Austin, would you like to commit this?
> 
> Reason: simplifies build system, in exchange for dropping a feature that no one uses.
> 
> Simon
> 
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: Edward Z. Yang [mailto:ezyang at mit.edu]
> |  Sent: 02 January 2015 21:58
> |  To: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs at haskell.org
> |  Subject: Re: Compiling nofib-analyse
> |  
> |  Attached is a patch which axes HTML support in nofib-analyse.
> |  I would Phab it but I don't know how to do that for submodules.
> |  
> |  Maybe we should drop the LaTeX support too!
> |  
> |  Edward
> |  
> |  Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of 2014-12-30 19:10:56 -0500:
> |  > Pretty sure it's the aptly named 'html'.
> |  > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/html
> |  >
> |  > I can't remember the last time I used the HTML reporting capability,
> |  > so I'd be happy about removing it.
> |  >
> |  > Edward
> |  >
> |  > Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones's message of 2014-12-30 07:03:17 -
> |  0500:
> |  > > When building nofib-analyse (in nofib), I get
> |  > >
> |  > > /home/simonpj/local/bin/ghc -O -cpp --make Main -o nofib-analyse
> |  > >
> |  > > Main.hs:14:18:
> |  > >     Could not find module 'Text.Html'
> |  > >     Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> |  > >
> |  > > There are rather a lot of HTML packages.  Which one is needed?
> |  Does this meant that it's essential to install this package before
> |  running nofib, a manual step?
> |  > >
> |  > > I wonder if it'd be better to remove the HTML dependency, or make
> |  it optional?
> |  > >
> |  > > Simon